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How much oil are you trying to separate from how much water?
If you have just a little bit of oil in a small amount of water, you can either centrifuge the two, which would cause the oil to rise quickly, or just let it sit and allow the oil to float to the surface, and then pick the oil off with an eyedropper.
If you need to separate oil from water in a continuous process (perhaps you have a parking lot and are trying to keep the oil leaking from people's cars from getting into drain water) you need an oil-water separator. Google "picture of an oil-water separator" to find out what they look like, but they are simple devices: there is a tank with an inlet and an outlet, and a wall in the middle that goes almost to the bottom. You put oily water in the inlet side of it. It runs under the wall and exits the device via the outlet. Because the oil is way above the gap between the bottom of the wall and the bottom of the tank, the oil can't get out. Then you hire a guy with a sucker truck to come by every so often and vacuum the oil off the surface of the inlet side.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoThere are various ways to separate water and oil. Some of the common methods are decantation, distillation, using a separator funnel and so many others.
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∙ 9y agowell, oil is denser so it would sink and water is lighter so it would float to the top.
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How would you separate oil and water into their components?
A mixture of oil and water is heterogeneous. Oil naturally separates from water and they can be separated by skimming the surface off the water.
What can be separate from water?
Your question is very vague. Anything can be separate from water. Perhaps you mean to ask what does not mix with water. Oil would be an example.
What would you use to separate oil and water?
You could let the oil float to the top and skim it off.
How we can separate oil from water?
Allow the mixture to sit until the oil and water have separated. Then pour off the oil.
How do oil and water separate?
Oil and water separate because oil will float to the top and water will sink to the bottom. The reason oil wil float to the top because oil is non polar while water is compound polar. Separation by decantation and filtration.Separation by decantation and filtration.
How would you separate oil and water into their components?
A mixture of oil and water is heterogeneous. Oil naturally separates from water and they can be separated by skimming the surface off the water.
What can be separate from water?
Your question is very vague. Anything can be separate from water. Perhaps you mean to ask what does not mix with water. Oil would be an example.
How would you separate oil from water?
Oil naturally separates from water and then may be skimmed off the top. For further purification, heating the oil allows the remaining water to evaporate.
What would you use to separate oil and water?
You could let the oil float to the top and skim it off.
How can you separate the oil and water- explanation with diagram?
Oil and water seperate spontaneoulsy.
Is fat water soluble?
No. That is why oil and water separate.
What mixture would separate by letting one material float and one of them sink?
oil and water
How do you separate water?
put oil onit
How do you separate water and oil mixture?
Distillation.
How we can separate oil from water?
Allow the mixture to sit until the oil and water have separated. Then pour off the oil.
When water and oil are mixed and they separate which one separates to the top?
oil
How do oil and water separate?
Oil and water separate because oil will float to the top and water will sink to the bottom. The reason oil wil float to the top because oil is non polar while water is compound polar. Separation by decantation and filtration.Separation by decantation and filtration.
